How Markets Work: High-School Seminar in Auburn (Sponsored by Jeremy Davis)
The Mises Institute educates young students through our website and publications. This half-day seminar is tailored for high school students but great for interested college studetns too.
There is no charge at all for this event for high-school and college students and their chaperones/teachers. It will provide an excellent introduction to the whole field of economics and why it matters to understand history and society and the ups and downs of civilization itself. Without economic understanding, we are left without a critical tool for understanding vast amounts of the social sciences.
The high-school years are the perfect time to begin to introduce economic logic as a discipline. But too often, economics is presented as if it has nothing to do with real life. In fact, it is important to every area of life, as this seminar will show.
Come join us to discover the theory and application of such critical concepts in economics as exchange, opportunity cost, the division of labor, entrepreneurship, and inflation.
Sessions take place in Condon Lecture Hall of the Mises Institute, 518 West Magnolia Avenue, Auburn, Alabama. Go here for driving directions. On-site parking is complimentary. Numerous cafes and restaurants are nearby.
Schedule
9:00 a.m. Registration, Coffee and juice, Bookstore open
9:30 a.m. Douglas French, Mises Institute, "Learning Never Ends"
9:50 a.m. Jeffrey Herbener, Grove City College, "Economizing in Human Life"
10:20 a.m. Anita Acavalos, University Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, "Why Free-Market Science is Better Science"
10:40 a.m. G.P. Manish, Suffolk University, "The Profit-Loss System"
11:00 a.m. Discussion and refreshments
11:15 a.m. Robyn Harte-Bunting, University of Angers, France, "If Something Can't Go On Forever, It Will Stop: American Federal Spending and Debt"
11:35 a.m. Malavika Nair, Suffolk University, "Money: the Medium of Exchange"
11:55 a.m. Stretch break
noon Peter Klein, University of Missouri, "Why Politicians Don't Like Economists"
12:30 p.m. Adjourn
The Mises Bookstore will be open, with student discounts on selected titles. Dress is casual. Please contact Kristy Holmes with questions, 334-321-2101 or email.
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